Battlefield north of Victoria.
Under the roar of artillery fire, a torrent of steel composed of MS troops and various armored vehicles charged towards the ZAFT army's defense line along the dense forest beside Lake Victoria.
The 5th MS Mixed Brigade is only a small part of it, and Li Boyong's 3rd MS Combat Company is just a small wave in the torrent.
But even such a wave encountered fierce resistance.
As the first wave of the 5th Mixed Brigade's offensive, the four assault daggers of the 3rd MS Combat Company, under the command of Li Boyong, advanced alternately with cover in pairs and shields. They were attacked when they approached the ZAFT Army's defense line. The Ford army's counterattack.
Standing on each of the two cliffs was a Jean armed with a 500MM recoilless cannon, firing two shells at the third MS combat company.
One shot directly destroyed an armored vehicle, and one shot hit the shield of Li Boyong's machine, destroying the shield directly.
"Damn it, run away and rush to the expected fighting position."
Li Boyong gave the order and the entire 3rd MS Combat Brigade accelerated its advance.
Li Boyong controlled the assault dagger and ran in a snake shape. Then, after dodging two more shells under the cover of the dense forest, he rushed behind a rock near the bottom of the cliff. The other aircraft also gradually arrived at the terrain near the cliff that could be used as a bunker.
These positions were selected by Li Boyong yesterday. They can be used as mobile suit bunkers to barely confront the enemy troops on the cliff.
Everything barely went according to plan, except that he was hit by a cannonball. Not only did he lose his shield, but his left arm holding the shield also lost its response, leaving electric sparks hanging down on the left side of the body.
Li Boyong secretly cursed this mass-produced rag that cut corners, and began to counterattack on the cliff with a 57-caliber beam rifle. After the other aircraft entered the pre-selected position, they also began to counterattack.
For a while, the ZAFT army on the cliff and the coalition army under the cliff were fighting back and forth in a lively manner.
But there is more to the alliance than Li Boyong’s MS team.
After Li Boyong took a stand in front, other units of the 5th Mixed Brigade that set off later pressed forward one after another, and the 1st and 2nd MS Combat Companies outflanked them.
However, the two MS teams were quickly attacked by artillery fire from the ZAFT army. Li Boyong heard the noise and realized that it should be ZAUT's cannon, and there were more than one.
The two MS teams that were outflanking were bombarded, and their forward momentum was blocked. Then, a Xigu that had been lying in wait for a long time suddenly appeared from the dense forest on the left.
Compared with the ordinary Xigu, this Xigu has an extra shoulder shield on the left and right shoulders. It carries a 500MM recoilless cannon in one hand and a slashing sword in the other as it rushes into the formation of the joint MS team on the left.
Is this the attack type Xigu?
Captain's plane?
Li Boyong also noticed the movement on the left. He didn't expect that the enemy's captain's aircraft would be ambushing alone in such a ghostly place...
The sound of fighting gunfire rang out on the left, but before the battle lasted two minutes, Li Boyong noticed the loss of two attack daggers over there.
Damn it, four against one, two of them were killed so quickly...
Could this captain's machine that suddenly appeared kill the four Assault Daggers over there by itself, and then come over and steal his team's retreat...
Li Boyong felt uneasy, and there was another movement from the MS team on the right. He should have stepped on an anti-armor mine that had been deployed in advance.
Listening to the messy communications over there, it seemed like two Assault Daggers had their legs damaged.
Then a new Zeon appeared on the cliff to suppress fire over there. It was dragged down by two Assault Daggers with damaged legs. The entire MS team was dragged into the terrain without bunkers.
Li Boyong smiled bitterly at this. Today was just a tentative attack, but he lost five Assault Daggers within a short period of time.
As expected, there is still a big gap in the experience of using mobile suit units between the United Army and the ZAFT Army.
Li Boyong had nothing to do about this. The left and right offensives were frustrated, but his side had already entered a state of war on the front line and had no time to support the left and right sides.
Fortunately, the 5th Mixed Brigade has more than this strength. After the offensive was blocked, two more MS teams were dispatched to support the left and right sides respectively, replacing the two MS teams that had suffered a heavy blow without doing anything, which fully demonstrated the human character. The advantages of multiple strengths.
The Assault type Xigu on the left faced the newly reinforced Assault Dagger team, and after a battle, it retreated into the dense forest. Although it still damaged an Assault Dagger with a recoilless cannon before leaving, Still couldn't stop the advance of the 5th MS mixed brigade.
Unfortunately, the United side had not been happy for a minute when the roar of heavy artillery sounded from behind ZAFT's defense line.
But it turned out that there was a ZAFT Army's Petrie-class medium-sized land warship hidden in the dense forest behind the cliff.
The ZAFT army did not make a move until they figured out the joint movement after a battle.
The follow-up troops of the 5th MS Mixed Brigade were constantly bombarded by heavy artillery and lost three more Assault Gladiuses in just five minutes.
The brigade headquarters reluctantly issued a retreat order.
"Damn it, how can I withdraw at this time..."
Li Boyong was full of complaints, but he still had to carry out the order.
It seems that today's wave of exploratory offensives has almost come to an end. The strength of the ZAFT defenders on the opposite side is much larger than expected.
"Bob and I take cover, and the other two retreat first."
I don’t know if it was due to the commander’s skills, but the three rookies who were on the battlefield for the first time did not make any mistakes and obeyed Li Boyong’s orders.
The two assault daggers retreated first, while Li Boyong concentrated on the top of the cliff.
Sure enough, the two Jeans on the cliff began to shoot at the two retreating Assault Daggers. Li Boyong was well prepared and shot the opponent's head off with one shot.
Then Li Boyong continued to suppress the fire. In a short period of time, Gene could not lift up the cliff, and then he retreated backwards with Bob.
As soon as the ZAFT army showed a hint of pursuit, artillery support from the joint rear came over, successfully covering Li Boyong and others as they retreated to a safe position.
Less than half an hour into the battle, the first wave of offensive from the 5th MS Mixed Brigade was repulsed, resulting in a lot of losses, but they were able to barely figure out some of the military configuration on the opposite side.
The MS troops that participated in the first wave of offensive, including Li Boyong, temporarily retreated for repairs, and the damaged aircraft underwent emergency repairs.
The 5th MS Mixed Brigade called for a wave of air support, and after suppressing the first wave from the opposite side, the remaining dozen Assault Daggers launched a second wave of offensive.
After testing the first wave of attacks, the second wave of attacks was not that hard and lasted for a long time. However, they still failed to attack the two cliffs. After being injured by three Assault Daggers, Back.
This wave of offensive lasted for a long time, giving Li Boyong time to direct the maintenance team to repair the arms of his own machine and have lunch by the way.
Then at 1:30PM, the third wave of offensive started again.
